The Giving Monks - Feeding the needy on the streets of Mumbai
The Giving Monks is an organization initiated by a group of youngsters, based out in Mumbai. Humanity is the core ethic of the team. The Giving Monks has no specific area of work; they...
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CNN Hero Umra Omar and her group, Safari Doctors braves danger to deliver health care in the rural Kenya
The eastern coast of Kenya was once a sought-after tourist destination. Today, the same is in plight for the threats by the Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab. But that could deter CNN Hero Umra Omar to...
Mangalore temple sets the finest example of ‘Non-Discrimination’ by appointing Dalit widows as priests for the first time
In a country like India, where caste prejudice is still rife, a Karnataka temple created history by appointing two Dalit widows as priests of the temple. This was not the first time that widows...
How football can transform lives of young girls? Learn from Yuwa team
This is heartwarming story of ‘Yuwa’, an organization co-founded by Franz, that uses girls’ football to combat child marriage, illiteracy and human trafficking in the rural regions of Jharkand. A group of 18 tribal...
Meet the senior citizen, who spends his pension money and weekends in filling up the potholes on roads
Gangadhara Tilak Katnam, retired railway officer, who has filled over 1125 potholes in Hyderabad, for the last 15 years. Gangadhara Tilak Katnam has been using his pension money to continue this noble cause. In...
Abandoned by her husband, she chose to nurture thousands of orphans - Meet Sindhutai Sapkal
In every public place one will find children asking and begging for alms, they are totally vulnerable and easily fall prey to predators and slave recruiters. But the destiny of orphan kids in the Indian city Pune is somewhat different as they have Sindhutai Sapkal as their mother.
‘We can live without Facebook & smartphones, but can’t live without relieving ourselves’- Swapnil Chaturvedi, Chief Toilet Cleaner
He calls himself ‘Chief Toilet Cleaner’; he is also famously known as ‘PoopGuy’. Meet Swapnil Chaturvedi, who cleans toilets in the slums of Pune. Swapnil Chaturvedi started ‘Samagra Sanitation’ in 2011. Samagra brings clean...
The guy who pulled Rickshaws till 90 years of age, hardly ate a good meal, wore throw-away clothes to educate hundreds of poor children
Is it possible to live a meaningful life after retiring? Everyone expects to live a very relaxed life after retirement isn’t it? However, this was not the case for the ‘Virtuous’ Mr. Bai Fang...
